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Views from the Field, Grantmaker Focus, and more…
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Leading Boldly, Building Trust: Lessons from a Community-Driven Strategic Planning Process
Kerry Darragh, Senior Communications Officer, The Horizon Foundation
Nikki Highsmith Vernick, President & CEO, The Horizon Foundation
The Horizon Foundation of Howard County, Maryland believes that everyone in our community deserves to live abundant and healthy lives. But there are barriers standing in the way of some of our residents—particularly people of color—from achieving that vision. We know that for too long, inequitable laws, policies, and practices have held back many of our neighbors. The foundation recently completed a 14-month long strategic planning process to figure out how to address these systemic barriers in a way that centers the voices of our community members who are most impacted. We realized that our work—what we focus on, who we engage with, and how we make decisions—needed to fundamentally change.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Lessons from the Washington AIDS Partnership: How to Take Big Risks and Move Quickly to Drive Change
Sarah Hashmall, Program Officer, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Channing Wickham, Executive Director, Washington AIDS Partnership
The Washington AIDS Partnership, a collaboration of grantmaking organizations with a mission of ending the HIV epidemic in the Greater Washington region, was founded in 1988 with the support of the Ford Foundation and 20 DC-area foundations. The organization’s charge was to make grants to the community as quickly as possible. At that time, Washington, DC had the fifth-highest HIV rate in the country, and the epidemic was out of control. As the city has made great progress reaching goals set in the DC Ends HIV Plan, the Washington AIDS Partnership determined in 2023 that its role in the fight to end the local epidemic was coming to an end. The organization will officially conclude its work in the first quarter of 2024.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
A New Generation of Researchers: Hearing from Youth Leaders on Their Well-Being
Desiree Armas, Peer Research Mentor, Fresh Tracks at the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
Niara Frankson, Peer Research Mentor, Fresh Tracks at the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solution
Zenetta Zepeda, Peer Research Mentor, Fresh Tracks at the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solution
Interviewer: Miranda Wesley, Grantmakers In Health
Building upon a previous conversation with Juan Martinez of the Aspen Institute and Cynthia Weaver of The Annie E. Casey Foundation on their collaboration on the Youth and Young Adult Well-Being project, the following Q&A features three paid youth consultants who are leading the research initiative as the Youth and Young Adult Well-Being core team. Each team member represents a different cultural affinity group in the well-being project: Desiree Armas from Latine Bienestar, Niara Frankson from Black Expressions of Well-Being, and Zenetta Zepeda from American Indian/Alaska Native.
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"To advance health equity and help support the needs of the seniors, school-age children, and Veterans we serve, our approach is to operate philanthropy more like a business – embedding it with metrics, driving for collaboration, and informing all decisions with data and research. These are essential elements in moving the needle for people living in underserved communities, especially those who are most vulnerable to trauma and systemic barriers.” |
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GIH NEWS
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Register for the 2024 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
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Registration is now open for the GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy in Portland, Oregon, June 4-6, 2024! We are excited to bring together the most innovative thinkers and practitioners in health philanthropy in the City of Roses. Click here for a full program of conference sessions and site visits that connect to this year’s conference theme, Bold Results Through Courageous Action.
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Explore Conference Sponsorship Opportunities
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Registration is now open for the 2024 Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy, so it's the perfect time to secure a conference sponsorship that's right for your organization. A customized sponsorship can connect you with hundreds of public health funders before, during, and after this year's conference in Portland, Oregon June 4-6. A sponsorship of this Grantmakers In Health conference provides direct access to an influential group of public health funders and practitioners. Join other corporations, health funders, and organizations from aligned fields to support the largest gathering for health philanthropy in the country.
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GIH’s Updated Funding Partner Portal
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The GIH Connect portal leverages data to connect funders in a way that fosters engagement and collaboration. We are pleased to share the latest version of GIH Connect, which provides Funding Partners with greater flexibility in updating their information and networking with peers. New features include an updated partner directory, a “Facilitate an Introduction” feature enabling Funding Partners to connect with others in the GIH network, and enhanced subscription and privacy controls.
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PHILANTHROPY
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Grants & Programs
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (Boston, MA) • Dogwood Health Trust (Asheville, NC) • The Foundation for a Healthy High Point (High Point, NC) • Health Foundation for Western & Central New York (Buffalo and Syracuse, NY) • Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita, KS) • New York Community Trust (New York, NY) • Nord Family Foundation (Amherst, Ohio) • Point32Health Foundation (Canton, MA) • Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation (Pottstown, PA) • Washington Square Health Foundation (Chicago, IL) •
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Transitions and Appointments
Brenda Solórzano (The California Endowment) • Phillip González (The MetroWest Health Foundation) • Shelby Kaemmerer (Mt. Sinai Health Foundation) • Andrew Barrett and Vivian Tam (New York State Health Foundation) • Courtney Rice (Northern Virginia Health Foundation) • Christy Prahl (Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute)
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